Madison Beer

Platinum-certified vocalist, tunesmith, studio hand, and writer Madison Beer has built a reputation around her bright yet wistful brand of pop. Landing an endorsement from Justin Bieber plus a major-label contract while still in her early teens, she refined an approach that blended her airy, comforting delivery with electronic pop, alt-rock, and R&B textures. Recognition followed the February 2018 Billboard 200 entry As She Pleases, alongside the Offset collaboration “Hurts Like Hell” and the Europa cut “All Day and Night,” a U.K. Top Ten single from 2019. That growing independence surfaced fully on the 2021 debut album Life Support, a set steeped in candid reflections on mental health and romantic pain that carried over into the 2023 memoir The Half of It and the follow-up LP Silence Between Songs; another chart success arrived with the 2024 release “Make You Mine.”

A devoted music fan and tinkerer from childhood, Madison Elle Beer of Long Island, New York, began uploading clips of herself covering familiar tracks at age 13 in early 2012. Months later, Justin Bieber discovered her take on Etta James’ “At Last” and reposted it to his vast Twitter audience. The ensuing press attention secured an Island Records contract and a management arrangement with Bieber’s own manager in 2013. Around the same period she took a minor part in the independent feature Louder Than Words, which featured David Duchovny and debuted at festivals late that year. Her first single, the buoyant and melismatic “Melodies,” surfaced at the end of 2013, followed by “Unbreakable” in June 2014. In 2015 she issued “Something Sweet” while joining Jack & Jack on “All for Love” and Mako on the dancefloor cut “I Won’t Let You Walk Away,” a track that registered on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Dance/Electronic Digital Songs, and Dance/Mix Show Airplay tallies.

Three years after initial work began, As She Pleases reached listeners in February 2018. It climbed to number 93 on the Billboard 200 and appeared on charts in Australia, the U.K., and across Europe. Lead tracks “Dead” and “Home with You” performed strongly, the former earning gold status in the U.S., silver in the U.K., and platinum in Australia and Canada, while the latter collected gold in the U.S. and Australia, silver in the U.K., and platinum in Canada. Later that year she dropped “Hurts Like Hell” featuring Offset, which went gold in the U.S. and Australia and platinum in Canada, then supported the EP with shows across Europe and North America, including a slot at Lollapalooza. March 2019 brought her feature on Europa’s “All Day and Night,” the Jax Jones and Martin Solveig project that reached the U.K. and Irish Top Ten and later earned platinum certification in the U.K. plus gold in France and Canada; “Dear Society,” issued that May, received gold honors in Australia.

Mid-2019 saw Beer move to Epic Records, where she debuted with “Good in Goodbye” in January 2020. The follow-up “Selfish” appeared on the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 (later platinum) and the Canadian Hot 100 (gold). Both songs anchored the February 2021 album Life Support, a brooding, introspective collection laced with alt-rock and R&B accents that reached number 65 on the Billboard 200 and surpassed a billion streams. June brought the single “Reckless,” which charted on the Mainstream Top 40, while additional 2021 releases included “Carried Away” with Surf Mesa, the Clifford the Big Red Dog soundtrack contribution “Room for You,” and headline dates in North America and Europe. In 2022 she unveiled “I Have Never Felt More Alive” from the Fall film soundtrack in July, followed by “Dangerous” in August and “Showed Me (How I Fell in Love with You)” in October. Early 2023 marked the publication of her memoir The Half of It, an account of her mental-health challenges and public life. June’s “Home to Another One” preceded the September arrival of her second album Silence Between Songs, on which she wrote and co-produced every track; it peaked at 86 on the Billboard 200. Early 2024 then delivered the successful single “Make You Mine.”